addicted to aspirins?

it may be that, at the doctor's advice (that he gave me last year or longer ago as i have not seen him in at least a year, or is it two, alas, i am not the best patient), i have become addicted to aspirins... i take an aspirin, 325mg, each day along with red yeast extract... i pretend that is better than taking the prescription meds he wanted me to take (as did the previous doctor who said she did not want me as a patient anymore... did i mention i am not the best patient?) when somewhere in my head i know it is basically the same statin chemical that is in the prescription drug... shhhh, don't tell me...

anyway, i find that on days off when i forget to take the aspirin and yeast i have some serious neck pain, moreso in the chair after typing a while, but definitely serious enough to stop the typing and get me out of the chair and cause frustration and even a bit of serious concern now and then... back to a doctor?... perhaps... anyway, i am not a happy patient to find i am hurting when i do not take the pills cuz the aspirin is masking something that could kill me (extreme case) which is why i never liked taking any sort of pain killer (cuz pain, like fear, is valuable information that can keep one alive and ignoring it {or masking it} can lead to more serious pains and illnesses and such)...

oh yeah, and happy new year (still laughing, dangit, right to the grave i suppose :)